Hide Upstairs And Listen To This

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is a very special Christmas Day episode, a quiet moment just for you, tucked inside the chaos, the noise, the joy and the overwhelm of today. If you’re listening to this hiding in the loo for five minutes… stirring gravy… feeding the baby… or sitting in the car for a breather before going back inside — this message is from my heart to yours. Christmas has a way of amplifying everything. The joy, the expectations, the mental load, the pressure to make it all magical. And so many of us arrive at today feeling stretched, emotional, tired, or holding far more than anyone ever sees. This episode is my love letter to you - doing the invisible work, the emotional labour, the holding-it-all-together. A moment to breathe. A moment to be seen. A moment to be reminded of your worth. This is not an episode to learn from or “do” anything with — it’s one to feel. A moment to pause, breathe, and let yourself be held for once. Wherever you are today, in the noise, the calm, the joy, the heaviness — I am sending you so much love. Merry Christmas Remember to subscribe to Motherkind — it helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing. Connect with Zoe: Follow Zoe on Instagram Get Zoe’s Sunday Times bestselling book, 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ This Motherkind episode is sponsored by: Headline sponsor Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'd like to take this moment to thank our headline sponsor, Wild Nutrition, who are offering
0:04.4	Motherkind listeners 50% off for three months. I'm so excited to tell you about the new range of
0:10.7	children's gummies. Now, I have two quite picky eaters, so I need to make sure they are hitting their
0:16.0	nutrient levels for healthy mind and body development. And this is where wild nutrition's new children's
0:22.4	gummies can help. The children's gummies range is made with 96% real fruit. There's no refined sugars
0:28.6	or sweeteners. There's no artificial colours or preservatives and they are 100% vegan. We absolutely
0:33.9	love the vitamin D gummies, the biotic gums and the ashriganda gummies.
0:38.0	I know how much of a difference wild nutrition has made in my motherhood journey.
0:42.9	And I want you to experience it too.
0:45.1	That is why they're giving Motherkind listeners an exclusive 50% off for three months
0:50.0	and a free personal consultation with a nutritional therapist. Just go to wildnutrition.com
0:56.4	forward slash motherkind to get started. That's wildnutrition.com forward slash motherkind. So you can
1:02.1	feel the difference yourselves. Find balance. Stay wild. T's and Cs apply.
1:19.0	Hello, my loves, I feel like I'm whispering because I am imagining you playing this hiding somewhere from the chaos that is probably going on.
1:22.0	Welcome to this very special Christmas Day message from me to you.
1:26.9	Okay, I want you to take a slow, deep breath in
1:29.2	and just slowly release it. And I just really wanted you to know something today. And that is,
1:35.1	you've done enough. You are enough. You are doing an extraordinary job. Christmas has a way,
1:41.5	doesn't it, of just magnifying everything. I think the joy gets bigger,
1:45.6	the pressure gets bigger, the noise gets louder, the expectations. And there are some of you listening
1:51.8	to this right now who feel exhausted. Some of you might feel unseen. Maybe you're grieving the
1:57.7	Christmas you wanted and you didn't get. Or maybe you're happy.
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